[codetrotter]

> Older builds required either a lot of hand-holding or Apple Internal tools, so this will hopefully be a step towards making it easier for others to drive future releases of XQuartz. If that is something you'd be interested in, please let me know.

Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz. Nonetheless it’s great that they put in the work of bringing native Apple Silicon support and making a build system for it that others can use.

Anyways I personally much more rarely need XQuartz now than before, but it’s good to have it be available still if and when you need it.

[azalemeth]

> Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz.

Either that, or they realised that it would be literally impossible to build it on Apple Silicon, if the hand holding became not possible and the internal tools not available.

[jeremyhu]

The community took over responsibility for XQuartz almost a decade ago. The build / release process that relied on some internal tooling, which meant only I could do it (until I finally spent a couple days writing a new release script over the Winter holiday).

[m463]

> Sounds like they are planning on having the community take over responsibility for XQuartz.

I think that was their plan for most open source software, but xquartz is more critical than most.